As we near the festive season it’s time to add a little Christmas sparkle to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch just so you can keep in the festive spirit in the lead up to that very special time of year. So with this in mine we thought we’d bring you a list of the top 5 free iOS Christmas Tree apps available.

So first up is iTree-Original Christmas Tree app for iOS devices running iOS 2.1 and above. This festive app enables the user to decorate their virtual Christmas tree they way they want or you can quickly decorate the tree with a simple tap of the magic tool. When done you can even send a postcard of your iTree via email to friends and family.

Next up we have the Christmas Tree Time app delivers to the user a choice of several different Christmas trees and backgrounds for iOS devices and the user can decorate their Christmas tree by hanging differing bulbs, light streamers, and various tree toppers and once decorated the user can even snip the tree to view it from all sides.

Then we have An Origami Christmas Tree Learning Experience app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which shows the user how to create an Origami paper Christmas tree in eleven steps. Each step can be navigated by tapping the arrows or flicking and if you get stuck you can go back to rectify, and your finished masterpieces can be used as gift tags or ornaments at Christmas.

Fourth we have Christmas Tree Trouble Lite for iOS 3.1.2 and above devices which rather than decorating a Christmas tree is a matching game whereby the user has to match two alike Christmas trees and as you progress through the levels it gets harder to match as the user competes against a clock.

Lastly there is Christmas Tree Songs for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 3.0 and above. When the user taps the star in this app music will play while the postcard colours change and if you shake the device snow begins to fall. The app includes such festive songs as Deck the halls, White Christmas, Rocking around the Christmas tree, Jingle bells, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, We wish you a merry Christmas and more.

So that’s it, our top 5 free iOS Christmas Tree app, all of which are free to download to your Apple device this festive season from iTunes